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‘Computer geeks are extremely unlikely to suffer one of those spectacular emotional meltdowns that make for good television.’

‘During a decisive meltdown, she kills her husband with the help of her obese maid.’

‘He takes great joy in making her smile, and we feel his helplessness at her meltdowns.’

‘Megan still has meltdowns, or tantrums, because she finds it very difficult to communicate.’

‘She won't win Celebrity Big Brother, but we'd like her to stay in the house long enough to finish her meltdown.’

‘He's moving toward a meltdown through most of the movie, but he's really a good kid.’

‘The slightest distraction, even something as seemingly benign as a water fountain or a beam of sunlight, can trigger a "meltdown," in which autistic patients are overcome with anxiety.’

‘She is a powerhouse of brooding, internal frustration on the verge of a meltdown.’

‘The last thing the shop will want is some woman having a long, loud, massive meltdown in their front room.’

2An accident in a nuclear reactor in which the fuel overheats and melts the reactor core or shielding.

‘Somewhere along the way, a pipe bursts in the reactor core and meltdown begins.’

‘Like a meltdown in a nuclear power plant, the conflagration now threatens to take the whole examination system down with it.’

‘I was 21 years old and it was three days after the partial meltdown of the reactor core.’

‘Go and try out the Nuclear Power Plant Simulator and see how many meltdowns you cause before you manage to survive an entire shift.’

‘A year ago one of the company's nuclear plants came dangerously close to a core meltdown.’

‘Lipsio said he took little comfort in knowing that the meltdown at the Palm Beach elections office happened during a trial to help spot such problems.’

‘I can't walk into a nuclear power plant and start fiddling with knobs and dials, without causing a nuclear meltdown.’

‘Even as a result of the only major meltdown, at Three Mile Island in the United States a quarter of a century ago, no lives were lost.’

‘Fearing a meltdown, the reactor officer shuts down the submarine's main source of power.’

‘In May 1967 radioactivity was released into the environment when fuel caught fire in a reactor and suffered a partial meltdown.’

‘Some nuclear critics had asserted that a core meltdown would inevitably breach containment.’

‘Over the years, Congress has created one program after another to insure individuals and businesses against a panoply of hazards, from natural disasters to bank failures to nuclear reactor meltdowns.’

‘They show you presentations of how top military bases were hacked and nuclear installations almost brought to meltdown.’